Whatsapp is undoubtedly the most used messaging application in the world. A platform that has changed a lot over the years, introducing multiple innovations regarding more or less graphic and more or less important aspects. In fact the 2021 could be a very important year for users who use this type of system on a daily basis to exchange messages with each other. The innovations that the developers of Mark Zuckerberg have planned to develop and introduce are in fact so many and this means that important changes await us especially in the use of the system on the desktop and beyond.

WhatsApp: here are all the news coming in 2021

Use on multiple devices

Finally it will also arrive for WhatsApp and its users the ability to use the platform on multiple devices at the same time. Therefore, anyone will no longer have the mere need to insert the SIM and therefore only and exclusively connect the account to their phone number and therefore use the system only on the device in which the SIM is inserted. The change will only allow users to use WhatsApp simultaneously on a smartphone, on a tablet or even on a computer but with a maximum of 4 devices. And this clearly without the need, as mentioned above, to have the connection via SIM.

A system that has been used for some time with other competitors as Telegram which synchronizes all messages on its cloud and therefore allows users to use their account on multiple devices at the same time. Messenger but also Instagram does the same and therefore it is legitimate to finally expect the arrival of this news also for WhatsApp, after having already seen it in the Beta versions in the last few weeks.

Video calls on WhatsApp Web

Video calls made directly on the desktop application will also be a reality. The Web version of WhatsApp will soon be enriched with the possibility of making video calls directly with your PC and this, in a phase of life in which many users are blocked at home for various lockdowns, can only be a very appreciated novelty.

Anyone can open the Web version on their PC or notebook and use the WhatsApp application to make a classic video call just like it has been on the mobile version for some time. Therefore, no inconvenience of having to use your smartphone to call your friends or even your colleagues or customers with video. Soon it will be possible to do it with the PC camera and maybe even better quality than what happens today with the smartphone.

Vacation Mode

It will probably be one of the most awaited news by WhatsApp users. Let’s talk about the so-called Vacation Mode (the name could also change during the formalization phase) and it will involve group conversations that exchange significant quantities of messages. In this case, in fact, the users participating in a certain group in a chat can easily move the conversations they are not interested in to a special archive in such a way that each message returns to the foreground in the list of various chats.

In this case, therefore, the chats would become almost secret and hidden unless the user of his own free will decide to view them. And here he should go to the appropriate section of the “ archived ” conversations and read them since they would not have sent any kind of notification and would not have appeared in any way in the list of other conversations.

Shopping

There will be the introduction of a button for Shopping. This seems to be a further novelty that WhatsApp intends to introduce precisely from this new one 2021. The goal of the Zuckerberg giant is to allow its users to do real shopping directly on chats and in the internal services of the messaging application. A novelty that has long seemed in the thoughts of the creator of Facebook and which could now actually arrive on WhatsApp. How? It is still not clear but it seems that users will be able to visit real shopping stores inside the platform with catalogs or product showcases from which they can buy directly.

In this case, however, it seems that WhatsApp, in the event of an actual purchase by the user, will send the same to any secure payment platforms on specific sites or after the confirmation of the order. Certainly what the developers of WhatsApp hope is to simplify this step too and to allow in the short term to be able to make payments directly on the messaging platform but in fact this step does not seem to be immediately immediate indeed the development seems to have been postponed or in any case are not so fast.